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In the many miracles of creation, there are signs of the Creator
Short Version for Secular audience.
FOR a full length detailed sophisticated and complete version of this argument -- from Ilmul Kalam -- for the existence of God, see:
Godel says God Exists, and provides a Mathematical Proof:
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/06/godel-says-god-exists-and-proves-it/
Unsavory Character of the Four Horsemen = New Agressive Atheists
https://www.salon.com/2021/06/05/how-the-new-atheists-merged-with-the-far-right-a-story-of-intellectual-grift-and-abject-surrender/?s=08
All of us who receive a western education absorb a European worldview which is hidden beneath the surface in textbooks and histories that we read. Many elements of this worldview are opposed to Islamic views. For our purposes in this essay, the most important of these changes was the transition from Christianity to secular thought that occurred in Europe. Whereas Christianity, like Islam, holds that religion is central to all human activity, secular thinking holds that religion is a private affair, and should not interfere with the public domain. Secular thought is well illustrated by a comment of famous French mathematician and astronomer Laplace. He said that he did not mention God in his book discussing the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, because he had no need of that hypothesis. It did not occur to him to wonder why the sun and the moon follow exactly computed courses, obedient to the orders of Allah, as described in Surah Rahman. The forces of gravitation, and other factors in the design of the universe, are so precisely balanced, that it is impossible to imagine that this degree of precision could have occurred by chance. There is overwhelming evidence that the universe has been designed so as to be hospitable to human life, exactly as asserted in Islamic teachings. The comment of Laplace is a good illustration of the ayat (2:257) …”As for those who deny God, their friends are the evil ones. They bring them from light into darkness”
The Quran (2:164) states that “in the creation of the Heavens and the Earth and the difference between day and night are the signs for those who think.” If we were to come upon a precision designed machine with interconnected parts all working harmoniously together to perform functions vital to our existence and survival, we would not imagine that this machine had been thrown together by an accident. Yet this is precisely what atheists believe, and propagate as a subtext within apparently neutral scientific texts. For example, a leading atheist Bertrand Russell stated that humans are “the outcome of an accidental collocation of atoms.” Atheists routinely deny miracles associated with the prophets, but the miracle they believe in, the accidental creation of a universe perfectly designed to be suitable for human existence, is far far more unlikely.
Sometimes, the evidence is so strong that it breaks through the barriers of unbelief. For example, one of the discoverers of the genetic basis of human life, Crick was quoted as saying, ‘An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” Very unwillingly, against his atheistic beliefs, Crick gave testimony to what the Quran (Surah Al-Waqi’ah 57-58) asserts as challenge: In the creation of man, and the seed from which man is created are signs which cannot be denied by those who reflect. Just like many nations mentioned in the Quran, Crick continued to deny God even after witnessing the miracles of creation.
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